Beyond Web Traffic: Building Direct Reader Relationships in the AI Era

Beyond Web Traffic: Building Direct Reader Relationships in the AI Era is a livestream webinar on January 14, 2025, at 1:00 PM; location and city are TBA. Join Letterhead and Distributed Media Lab to explore how independent and nonprofit news organizations can thrive in an evolving digital landscape as AI content floods the web and social media referrals decline, shifting from traditional traffic-based models to direct reader relationships through email, distributed content networks, and community engagement. Industry experts will share practical strategies for diversifying distribution channels and leveraging first-party reader data and owned audience channels to help future-proof publications, deepen reader connections, and drive sustainable revenue growth.

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